Zoner's relocating to the West Coast, which would've put us in quite a bind.

However, Dave 'donnerjack' Lawson has an actual hosting provider, and stepped up to not only give us space, but to do a lot of the heavy lifting on porting the site over to the 21st century.

(And no, he hasn't seen anything you haven't, so don't pester his ass about spoilers.)

Ard Collier
that Janice chick
Usual Suspect and general menace

I didn't plan to say anything until it was done, for fear of jinxing the proceedings, but it's all true. Dave (of "wrote the script to make an RSS version of What's New" fame) has been the gracious point man for this whole project.

Another victory for the Ardaniel Competence Outreach Network!

--G.
"Ardaniel: If she doesn't know how to do it herself, she'll find someone who does.™"
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Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Admin
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/
Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.

The site is www.opensourcecms.com.

1) migration of the old to the new
2) preserving the data formatting from the old to the new

Considering the joys of DCForum's excuse for HTML support, the second may be just as hideous a level of work as the first.

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Geoff Depew - Darth Mephron
Haberdasher to Androids, Dark Lord of Sith Tech Support.
"And Remember! Google is your Friend!!"

Eh, the first is a SMOP. Of course, it may be a SMOP that results in your brain leaking out your ears, although I'd hope that DCF isn't as horrifying internally as PhpBB... Right? Please?

The second... does that imply that DCF doesn't keep the raw posts around, but only the formatted posts? Ewww.

I'm not working on the migration, but the DCF-specific formatting is, uh, special. I fear for the sanity of anyone trying to create a conversion. I can only imagine the database is pretty squamous by now.

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Geoff Depew - Darth Mephron
Haberdasher to Androids, Dark Lord of Sith Tech Support.
"And Remember! Google is your Friend!!"

If it simplifies matters to get a new forum and lose the old posts, I won't kick. I'm pretty sure I don't have any Ancient Chinese Wisdom, really good jokes, or information on the Perfect Chocolate Chocolate-Chip Cookie anywhere on here.

Peter Eng
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(Or anywhere else, for that matter.)

The big sticky mess comes in to all of the original, story-related material we've released in here. Like, uhhh, the entire Featured Documents conference. Maybe we could leave the old forum up and locked out for access to that stuff, I dunno.

That's a problem for Later, though. Top men, &c. :)

	Chad Collier Smirking Kilrathi The Captain of the Gravy Train